When Staci is shunted off to live with her alcoholic mother in Silence, Maine, she thinks the worst thing she’ll have to deal with is the fact that the crumbling town is stuck in the proverbial stone age. But the town’s shabby façade masks dark forces at work behind the scenes—and Staci is about to find herself caught in the middle of a very dangerous game.

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Exiled from the Rimward Commonwealth, Simon Forrester must make a new life for himself as an apprentice on the merchant vessel Stacked Deck. But there are those on board plotting interstellar war behind closed doors. Now Simon must choose sides—and the fate of an empire hangs in the balance.

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Tim Ryan has always known he is different from other teenagers. But he didn’t know just how different, until he went to live with his grandmother on a tiny island off the coast of Australia. There, he’ll face enemies that want to destroy him, discover the mysterious changeling heritage that is his birthright, and grow from being a sulky to teenager to a young man prepared to take hold of a legacy of power beyond any he has ever imagined.

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After three tours working to build satellites in low Earth orbit, Dan Colton knows just how dangerous the vacuum of space can be. He’s got a saying for everything, because when all that stands between you and certain death is the scant protection of an EVA suit, platitudes can save lives. After all, you can never have too much humility in orbit. But when he’s flung kilometers away from the satellite on which he’s working, in a suit with little power and less oxygen, all of the folksy sayings in the world (or out of it) won’t save him. Dan Colton will have to rely on his instincts, his training, and a rookie operator back at the station if he’s going to live to see another day, in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from Terry Burlison.

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From ancient times through to the modern era and into the far future, the saying holds true: Ships and fleets may win battles, but shipyards win wars. In this month’s free nonfiction article, Jim Beall takes us on a tour through history, highlighting the ways in which shipyards have shaped naval warfare—and speculates how the space-based shipyards of the future will help us conquer the stars.

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Baen Books continues its release of guides to modern classics of science fiction and fantasy with reader’s guides to John Ringo’s bestselling Black Tide Rising series. Including a series overview and all four novels (Under a Graveyard Sky, To Sail a Darkling Sea, Islands of Rage and Hope, Shards of Sorrow), these reader’s guides are perfect for book club discussion groups or individual readers who want to dig deeper into the series. Featuring chapter-by-chapter summary, group discussion questions, and more, the Black Tide Rising series guides are available as a free download now.

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